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of stamps, $606,000. much will help to educate children in africa. >> she was terrific. really good in that. >> julie is next: go tigers! >> julie: new mine disaster unfolding. the situation turning deadly. crews hold out hope some men can still be saved. >> he joined a branch of al-qaeda after his release from guantanamo bay. now he has voluntarily given himself up. i'm julie banderas and this is the fox report. taking nothing for granted. with just 17 days before americans need the polls, president obama campaigning in a traditionally blue state that already delivered democrats a shocking blow earlier this year. >> the president: hello boston!
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>> julie: tonight, the president's effort to make sure a scott brown upset does not repeat itself in the bay state and how republicans are using that in the hopes of riding an anti-incumbent wave to victory in november. a bombshell report, suggesting u.s. officials received a tip months before terrorists hit western targets with deadly precision. the shocking details behind new allegations into the mumbai attacks. and who reportedly raised red flags ahead of this tragedy felt on american soil. plus, new developments in the disappearance of a little girl fighting cancer. police saying there are eyewitness accounts of this 10-year-old. how they could change the course of this heartbreaking investigation.
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massachusetts governor's race is coming down to the wire. president obama flew into the bay state to campaign for his former law school classmate duvall patrick. the incumbent is fighting challenger charlie baker. he's hoping to repeat brown's success with a big gop win if one of the bluest of blue states. molly line is live in boston. how was the president received? >> reporter: he was received warmly. not just by the crowd, but by the governor, governor patrick welcoming the president with open arms. hoping he would rally the base and bring them to the polls. the governor ahead in the polls by 7% in the latest poll over his challenger republican baker and independent cahill who may be siphonning off some of those independent votes. the last time the president came to massachusetts it was to campaign for attorney
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general coakley in that senate race that brown, the republican won. today the president said, the democrats need to get to the polls or the clocks will be turning back and they will be faced with republicans in office. here's president obama. >> the president: if they said no even to policies that historically they had agreed to, then historically they had sponsored and adopted. they figured they could ride people's anger and frustration to the ballot box. >> reporter: this is why the president is urging democrats to get to the polls. democrats have a majority over republicans. those critical inches will -- independents will decide the race. >> how are republicans act to be the visit? >> reporter: baker says the president's visit proves that governor patrick is nervous. >> the governor is worried. he's worried about the fact that our message has been resonating with voters. that voters are interested in
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seeing government get reform and somebody whose got private sector experience who would cut spending. >> reporter: independents are even more critical to the baker campaign. republicans here in massachusetts make up less than 12% of voters so they really need to get them to the polls on election day. >> julie: molly line, thank you. >> early voting kicking off in one of the most closely watched senate races in the country. in nevada the stakes couldn't get higher. the polls can't get much tighter. harry reid locked in a dead heat with republican challenger sharron angle. the senate's most powerful democrat versus a political newcomer backed by the tea party. both pulling out all stops. reid's time trying to send off anti-incumbent fever. angle backers looking to claim one of the biggest prizes on the 2010 campaign trail. chief political correspondent carl cameron is live in
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las vegas. >> reporter: harry reid as the democratic leader is the republican's top prize. because angle is tea party backed and so conservative, democrats are doing everything possible to stop her and protect harry reid. the early voting as begun here in nevada. it has been remarkable throughout this day in las vegas there has not been a moment that the voting stations haven't been filled with voters. very high turn-out. half the ballots in nevada will be cast before election day. across the country, 2/3 of the nation are engaged in some type of early voting. whether it is requiring people to come to the stations and cast a ballot or do it by mail. washington and oregon have virtually turned their elections into entirely mail-ed -- mailed-in ballots. and some allow absentee ballots without an excuse. as a consequence it has become
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a big part of the republican and democratic campaigns. each side pouring lots of money into it. recognizing that so many votes can be banked by a candidate long before the polls close the advantages are many, much more convenient. that has the capacity of increasing participation and raising turn-out. statistically over the last few years there's not a lot of evidence to prove that. there's efficiency. stretching it out over time it allows the government to make the count more accurate get it done at the time when the polls close and ultimately designed to create a more informed electorate. everybody is rooting for early ballotting, early voting. the candidates are counting on it in the past democrats had a bit of an advantage. this time republicans have energy and a bit of organization on their side. >> julie: carl cameron, thank you very much. >> midterm elects are weeks away.
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control of congress is on the line. tonight, fox news takes you inside several key house and senate races across the country. tune into fox news reporting campaign 2010, fight to the finish hosted by bret baier tonight 9:00 p.m. eastern time. new developments in the search for four miners missing after a tunnel collapse in ecuador. the country's deputy mining minister saying the crews recovered the bodies of two of the men. survivors of the cave-in believe the others -- to others may still ab life, trapped nearly 500 feet underground. rescuers are snaking a camera down into the gold mine trying to make contact with those men. >> rescuers in china are working to rescue seven miners trapped after an early morning explosion. 20 do it in the blast at the state owned mine in hanan province. state media blames the explosion on a gas and coal
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outburst. china's mining industry one of the most dangerous in the world. more than 2600 miners died there last year. >> in chile the 30 three rescued miners are -- the 33 rescued miners are beginning their life above ground. they are keeping -- they are fast becoming stars since wednesday's rescue. one of the men took daily notes that could turn into a man script. parts of his note -- notebook taped close to ensure secrecy. adam housley is outside the hospital in chile. >> reporter: that book, part of it taped closed was left in the mine because he was so nervous about his extraction that another miner who was there brought it up for him. that book being kept close to the chest, as you might imagine. we are hearing little details about the actual accounts of what happened down there.
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just bits and pieces. the miners continue to say they want money to give their story. there's already book deals in the works, as well as movie dealers. one miner we were talking to through a contact says he was just offered and has signed a deal to be paid by a german television station. all this money is supposed to go into one account and accountants hired by the miners will divvy it up equally. 31 have gone home. a great majority of them went home early last evening in a convoy. the hospital was saying they had already left. they drove behind the media. there was quite the chase down the street of cameras, trying to get a glimpse of these heroes, as they are being called. two men are still being treated one for vertigo, another one for pretty serious dental problems. all told, the physical toll not as bad as some feared.
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the mental toll is more serious. there are a number of miners who are having trouble sleeping. some waking up at the shift time they were assigned underground. as we go into tomorrow, some are expected to return to the mine for a special sunday catholic service. >> julie: adam housley, thank you. don't miss geraldo at large tonight, an in-depth look at the amazing rescue and what is next for the miners. tonight 10 p.m. eastern. later this hour geraldo will join us with a sneak peek. wikileaks is at it again threatening to public hundreds of thousands of iraq war documents. it could happen as early as tomorrow. we'll tell what the pentagon is doing to prepare. >> new tips in the disappearance of the missing north carolina girl zahra baker. we'll tell you the last place police say she was spotted and why her stepmother is behind bars tonight.
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. update on the case of a missing 10-year-old north carolina girl. police are saying zahra claire baker was seen in a furniture4i store as late as september 25th. this tip is significant. investigators say previously they couldn't find anyone outside her immediate family who had seen her alive in more than a month. zahra was reported missing last weekend. she uses hearing aids and a prosthetic leg because of bone cancer. her stepmother is in jail accused of trying to throw cops off with a fake ran -- ransom note. >> the pentagon is preparing for wikileaks. the website says it is ready to post five times as many pages as july'sment dump on the afghanistan war. wick can i leak could release these documents as early as tomorrow. julie kurtz is live a wrap up of more documents released
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soon. >> reporter: the new document dump by wikileaks could contain a huge database of classified iraq war tactical reports. reports on significant acts on the ground, unit level action and tactical material from the field. according to a spokesman for the defense settlement who also says the pentagon does not know what wikileaks has. defense has set up a task force of 100 or so people ready to review the leaked documents. that team was established after the july leak of the afghan war logs. the new material is reported to be 400,000 pages of classified u.s. army documents on the war in iraq. would it make this single largest military leak in u.s. history in july wikileaks' founder posted more than 70 thousand pages on the war in -- 70,000 pages on the war in afghanistan. >> for these documents to be released it is a huge breach.
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julian as sang an everybody with wikileaks should be declared enemy of the state and we should take appropriate action. >> reporter: according to an august 16th letter by gates to levin, chair of the armed services committee initial assessment by the pentagon concludes the leak of the afghan war logs did not compromise any american intelligence sores or practices. secretary gates also notes in that letter that the leak did pose a potential risk to individuals. the debate continues on the impact of wikileaks, as the pentagon braces for another major release of secret war papers. >> julie: surprise announcement from supreme court justice alito. the high court judge saying he doubts he will attend president obama's next state of the union address. alito believes the annual speech is too political for justices who need to remain impartial.
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he also acknowledged his colleagues may be better than him at keeping their opinions private. remember why? back to the last state of the union address, remember president obama calling out the supreme court for its decision in a campaign finance reform case? right there, in that video dating back to january 27th, justice alito appeared to spoken, possibly mouthing the words, "not true" causing a lot of converse. >> did the u.s. now about the terrorists who were plotting the mumbai attacks? a new report says the agents got a big tip years before. what did they do with that information? >> he went from guantanamo bay back to al-qaeda. we'll tell you about one former detainee's surprising change of heart that landed him back in the hands of authorities, next. ♪ [ man ] i thought o family business would always be boots. until one day, my daughter showed me a designer handbag.
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>> julie: a rash of attacks in afghanistan's largest southern city killing two and wounding dozens. a motorized rick shaw full of explosives blew up behind a -- police headquarters. in another attack a bomb went off in the middle of a crowded district. troops are ramping up security operations in kandahar. the city is considered the birthplace of the taliban movement. >> surprise surrender from a former gitmo detainee who rejoined al-qaeda in yemen. in 2006 he told guantanamo bay's review board he would never return to jihad. but he rejoined the fight shortly after the yemeni government negotiated his return. he even completed saudi arabia's militant rehabilitation program.
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al-qaeda in yemen is considered one of the most dangerous terror groups. no word on which group he may have aided or if head ed back to jail. >> new report that three years before the mumbai terror attack the fbi got a significant about someone connected to the rampage. this was the scene in 2008. 166 people were killed in all in india's largest city. the "washington post" is reporting the wife of a man who played a key role in orchestrating those attacks warned the fbi about him back in 2005. james rosen has more from washington. >> reporter: this information that the wife of one of the conspirators if the mumbai taxes gave to the fbi may have figured in the warnings that u.s. officials conveyed to indian authorities prior to the bloodshed in mumbai. those attacks in november 2008 involved close to a dozen coordinated shootings and bombings across the largest city including assault on the taj mahal hotel.
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166 people were kill over two days. the attacks were carried out by let, a terrorist group with al-qaeda connections. a chicago man david coleman headly later pleaded guilty in connection with the attacks. "washington post" reports in 2005 headly's wife, after learning he had another wife and more children in pakistan, and the two got into a physical altercation, went to federal authorities in new york and in the course of three interviews told them headly was involved with let. headly was arrested for domestic salt but not prosecuted. the episode bears some similars to the foiled christmas day airline bombing plot against northwest flight 2 an 3 in that case the father of the -- -- 253 in that case the father of u.n. a had grown dis-- took his concerns to cia officials in nigeria that lead to the placement of mutallab
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on one data back but not the u.s. no-fly list. the frontline in warning us about the potential existence of jihadist, are members of a family, members of a club of association in government we don't have a good reception for that. we confuse indicators of terrorism with indicators of family disputes that is not the same thing. >> reporter: the group that carried out the mumbai attacks remains a throat u.n. security interests. the woman who claim mexican pirates shot her husband while sightseeing is talking to police again. mexican authorities say tiffany hartley provided a second statement to investigators and reportedly offered valuable new information to help in the case. no word on what it was that she told them. you will recall hartley claims
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. >> julie: it has been described as one of the most exhilarating experiences of your life and only lasts a few seconds. i like to call it crazy. would you look at that! dozens of base jumpers taking a huge leap of faith off a west virginia bridge. the distance from the bridge to the ground is 876 feet. for most jumps the ride lasts less than 10 seconds. this bridge call the new river gorge bridge is the single
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longest single arch bridge in the world throw perfect for base jumping. -- though, perfect for base jumping. i'm julie banderas and you are watching the fox report. time for the top of the news: word today rescue crews in ecuador have found the bodies of two of four miners trapped underground hundreds of feet cave-in happened friday at a gold mine at a south american nation. crews are hoping to reach the three others still missing. officials believe water leaks may have triggered the collapse. >> american businessman held in iran for two years is now a free man according to the man's family. he been accused of passing money to an iranian, tied to an opposition group. he denied it the family says he has diabetes and was in poor health. his lawyer has asked iran to release him on humanitarian grounds. >> president obama continuing his tour of battle ground states. stumping for democrats.
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today the president campaigned for massachusetts governor patrick who is running for reelection. >> former president clinton campaigning from coast-to-coast for democrats running in the midterm. his stop in los angeles for gubernatorial candidate jerry brown is getting attention. these two were bitter rivals in the 1992 presidential primary. anita vogel has the story. >> reporter: the most popular democrat in the land comes to the west coast to lend star power to fellow democrats facing tough election battles. in some cases, letting bygones be bygones with former rivals. >> when you -- will you elect jerry brown? >> reporter: former president clinton in california last night to help fellow democrat jerry brown as he runs for governor. >> i am so grateful to jerry brown that you know we're not very far apart in age, we've been doing this a long time.
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he still cares about your future. [ cheering ] >> that is important. >> reporter: the two are no stranger to sharing a stage. >> you ought to be ashamed of yourself for jumping on my wife. you are not worth being on the same platform as my wife. >> reporter: much friend than in the 90s competing for the democratic nomination for president. >> president bill clinton. governor jerry brown. >> reporter: all differences are being set aside at last until after the midterms in november. clinton for his part crisscrossing the nation, stumping for democrats that face tough election battles. >> you have to vote for harry reid! >> reporter: earlier in the week the former president stopped in nevada to campaign for harry reid. who is in the fight of his life to maintain his seat. all told, clinton will have made almost 80 campaign appearances in the 2010 cycle, nearly double that of president obama. candidates hope clinton's
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ain't to draw a crowd will translate into more votes. >> i think bill clinton lends star power, on one level. people like to be identified with stars. who had a good run. clinton had a good run. clinton is a wonderful debater, or ray for, speaker, better than -- orator, speaker better than anybody out there. >> reporter: how much of a difference can clinton made? analysts say in the california race, a lot. 20% voters consider themselves to be independent. many are undecided. could be swayed by a personal endorsement by a popular former president. julie, back to you. >> brand new fox opinion poll on the countdown to the midterm election. new poll shows more americans now plan to vote for a republican over a democrat come november. peter doocy is in our studio with more on these polls. >> reporter: voters on both
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sides are energized in the home stretch of this election season. our latest polls indicate one party has a clear advantage. two weeks from this tuesday voting booths across america will be packed. 48% of likely voters said this week they will back the republican candidate in their district. 39% say they will back the democrat. that gives the gop a 9 point advantage. those same voters say they are twice as likely to pull the lever for a candidate they agree on economic issues over a candidate who shares their views on social issues. a majority 61% think life for the next generation of americans will be worse than it is today. >> i think it is going to be worse. i think that with education, our education is bad. the economy is bad. our fitness is bad. i think it is going to be hard. >> reporter: 27% think life
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for their kids will be better. >> i think that it is going to be better because they are so resourceful and i think that they will have a lot of ways of working things out that we didn't think about. >> reporter: in the run up to the midterms we've seen thousands of americans exercising their right to protest. when it cop to those on the sidelines, 43% would rather get stuck in the middle of a conservative demonstration. >> i believe with it would be more thoughtful and respectful than rule following. >> reporter: 28% would prefer getting stuck in the middle of a liberal demonstration. would you rather get stuck in a street demonstration of conservatives or liberals? >> liberals. >> reporter: why? >> the music is better. >> reporter: that guy has obviously never listened to trace adkins, his loss. >> julie: peter doocy, thank you. protests this weekend all over europe. in france angry workers filling the streets to put a
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stop to planned pension reforms. hundreds of thousands there are outraged over plans to make the retirement age 62 instead of 60. in italy, people waving red flags and banners filling the streets of rome rallying against a bleak outlook for jobs and demanding more rights for workers. >> a big battle with drug cartels plays out on the streets of one of mexico's biggest cities. >> a feast with no food in france. as we go around the world in 80 seconds: china: police blaming thick fog for a deadly chain reaction crash closing a major highway. 20 cars collided, including a truck carrying tons of fruit. eight people died and nearly two dozen injured. it took crews more than five hours to clear the damage and reopen the road. mexico: drug cartels armed with assault rifles and grenades ambushing a marine patrol on the streets of monterey.
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gangs set up roadblocks to keep military reforcements out of the area. one marine and three gang members died in the fighting. the ambush started as the governor delivered a speech in city hall. japan: thousands marching through downtown tokyo, pro protesting the chinese government's plan to -- claim to a pair of disputed islands. japan recently arrested and released the chinese captain whose ship collided with japanese boats reigniting the territorial dispute. france: there was nothing on the menu at a banquet under the eiffel tower. the group action against hunger marking world food day lining up 10,000 empty plates. they want to draw attention to the 10,000 children who die of starvation everyday. that's a wrap on this fox trip around the world in 80 seconds. >> ever thought about what you
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>> julie: we are just getting word of a break down in negotiations to re for fox channels. fox news corp pulled the stations over a feed dispute. tonight's big baseball playoff game between the giants and phillies will likely be blacked out on cable vision. both sides plan to resume talks tomorrow. the first pitch in tonight's game is set before 8 p.m. eastern tonight do. not change the channel stay
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here on the fox report, thank you. >> a program that created hundreds of jobs for americans is over. stimulus jobs program expired september 30th. for a year and a half it gave people a chance to find work and pay the bills. in tennessee the program created jobs for more than 400 people. temporarily cutting one county's unemployment rate nearly in half. now it is back to square one. live in atlanta with details. >> reporter: all is said and done only 20% of those people who enrolled in the program are now currently working fulltime. the county mayor says he's continuing to lobby for more businesses to come to his rural community, which is why they were put in this situation in the first place. one of the largest employers in perry county, tennessee shipped jobs to mexico. judy kelly went from parts to pies. armstrong pies hired 12 new
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employee i with the dough that paid the salaries of 440 public and private sector jobs with federal stimulus dollars. >> it was good for us because our community was hit hard with unemployment. >> reporter: nationwide unemployment near 10%. perry county's is almost triple that. >> experiencing almost 27% unemployment making us the second highest for unemployment in the nation. during this program the unemployment was able to be reduced to approximately 13%. >> reporter: the program ran out of cash last month. butting 300 people out of work again. >> we knew when the program was implemented it would be a band-aid not a permanent fix. one thing it did, it kept people engaged with work. >> reporter: armstrong increased pie production by 700,000 and kept all but one worker. even though the federal dollars have cried dried up. >> our business could expand -- because we could get more drivers on the road making
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more sales, opening more stops that would create more jobs. >> reporter: this program has inspired three other states, florida, colorado and mississippi. they've all instituted similar programs. >> wow, thank you. >> wanna be one of the first to interview president george w. bush since leaving the white house? you probably might want to log on to facebook. president bush is running a contest to promote his upcoming book, "decision points." you need post five questions you want him to answer on his facebook wall. finalists will record a two minute video. the public will choose the winner. that winner flies to dallas to conduct the interview with president bush. >> the best deal on gas you are ever gonna get as we go across america. missouri:
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officers combing the flattened wreckage of a highway patrol helicopter. yesterday's crash killed a 17 year veteran of the force. a tragedy choking up seasoned patrolmen. >> crash occurred around 11:00 this morning. >> friends of the officer say he died doing his true life's work. the cause of the crash is under investigation. florida: a jeep and news van colliding, sending three to the hospital. the collision was so strong the van flipped on its side. reports say the driver of the van was trying to make a u-turn when the crash happened. police cited the van driver, luckily none of the injuries are life-threatening. illinois: drivers getting a break, if they are willing to wait for it. a shell station giving away three gas. the station's owners say they
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pumped nearly 7,000 gallons for over 600 people. new york: the best investment on wall street may be a board game. the museum of american finance displaying the world's most expensive monopoly board. the game's diamond studded dice alone valued at $10,000. a jeweler made the board for the 1988 monopoly world championships in london. in all the set is estimated to be worth roughly two million dollars. that's a fox watch across america. >> millions all over the world watched it happen. the rescue of the chilean miners after 69 days trapped underground. next, geraldo with stories you haven't heard about the miracle miners, next. ♪ proud to stand on our own, proud to be homegrown ♪ ♪ can you hear it?
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>> julie: by now you have all seen the pictures, miners rescued after 69 deep underground. who could forget the hugs, the tears as each man was pulled to the surface. reunited with their loved ones. now the stories you haven't heard. the pictures no one has seen. joining me now, geraldo rivera host of geraldo at large. you have a special program tonight. none of the miners of course because they are all brokering book deals. >> as they should be, good for them, 70 days underground. >> julie: absolutely. what do you have coming up? >> the chilean ambassador. we have great inside stories. we have the americans who actually ran the drill, the successful -- it was not
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supposed to be there was a plan a, they were plan b. they were the ones who successfully reached the miners. we've got a lot of the players. we've got the inside scoop of them sneaking out of hospital today and last night to fool the press to get home to be with their loved ones. some have perked up in the public eye. the majority as you say they've got agents now, they've got accountants now they are pooling their deals. hopefully they make a titanic movie out of this. >> julie: they were trapped underground but yet they had their plan mapped out. they had plenty of time. i wonder who up above was corresponding with them. it seeps like their plan was ready to go book deals and movie deals. >> mike the miami heat con veer -- like the miami heat conspiracy to get lebron james. they had communication with loved ones. presumably they are the ones who brokered the deals.
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that story will emerge who was the show me the money agent who them all together. the fact of the matter is, they are very well organized. this is a reflection of the organization that allowed them not merely to survive, but to thrive deep underground. they were even before the real story the 16 days before they were contacted. the 16 days when they didn't know anybody knew whether or not they were alive or in fact, no one knew they were still breathing a quarter of a mile under the ground in the bowls of the earth. they organized themselves even then they and they took care of their waste. some exercised. they rationed the meager food they had. making a can of tuna last for several days. they were very disciplined group. there are stories obviously of some not faring as well as others. the reason we are so elated by
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the story aside from the fact that it kept us on pins and s for two months they've done so well. the technological prowess shown by the chileans. the open-mindedness that allowed the chileans to reach out to the united states and other technologically advanced countries to get the equipment from the four corners of the earth to get these men out this is the feel good story of the century, young century but -- >> julie: some of these men are suffering now a few days post-traumatic stress. some are dealing with vertigo. what are some other issues that some of the men are suffering from? >> there is also the inevitable. aside from all of the fancy post-traumatic stress and all those kinds of syndromes that we talk about. there's also the inevitable let down. you are the focus of the world's attention. you have a community almost like being in -- far out in
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space on an asteroid. here you've got your little world it has rules, rhythms. you have at stake your own survival. you have your own disciplines to make sure that you can make it through. then you've made it through. now you are back on earth. now you can imagine what happens. okay jose can you take out the garbage now? who is going to take the kids to school now? are you going back to work? a lot are struggling with whether or not they go back underground. many hope the bounty from this miracle will be enough sustain them so they don't have to go back to the deep dark again. as you have been reporting tonight, the disasters in ecuador and in china, just today showed the peril of these guys. we've always seen they are the epitome of the working-class heroes these coal miners our own and the fellows in chile, china, ecuador. they come up and they are
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grimey and they their lunch buckets and head lamps. now we understand what is at risk. in china 2600 chinese died last year alone in coal mining accidents for god sakes. i've covered and you've covered i was at say get that awful disaster in -- at sago that awful disaster in quecreek. now chronicle this drama unfolding in real-time has been a joy. >> julie: we are going to take a quick break, we will be right back. playing ) ♪ can't help it, can't help it ♪ ♪ can't help it, no no no... ♪ come on. ♪ can't help it, can't help it, no no no ♪ ♪ you drive me crazy ♪ and i just can't stop myself, uh! ♪ ♪ can't help it, can't help it, can't help it. ♪
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. >> julie: you can follow the miners' stories you can see the latest on the rescue chilean miners as well as a number of issues affecting the hispanic community foxnewslatino anyone there look familiar? there's a younger geraldo with his grandparents one of the
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pictures that you can -- i have to put up picture of my family. >> absolutely. >> julie: tell me about that picture? >> arrived in san juan, puerto rico, 1959 led by grandparents. that's juan on my left, they lived well into their 90s. my aunt julie, cousin sonia that's at san juan airport i was 15 going on 16 in puerto rico for the first time meet family. my dad one of 17 children of that couple. he -- actually my grandpa was the manager of a small sugar cane plantation. each child as they were born became another hand in the field. i asked my grandmother how did you have so many children? she said times were different. i said this's an underestimate. >> julie: interesting to hear and see where you came from. >> all of our community, now almost 50 million strong here the largest -- >> julie: my mother

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